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...U.S.S.R. remains a militaristic adversary with which the U.S. must contend. The internal strains are viewed in the study as a possible cause of Soviet expansionism, especially in the Third World. The study emphasizes that renewing U.S. and allied military strength is the most practical means of imposing restraint on the Soviets, while holding out promises of trade and other cooperation if their behavior changes. The report sees a strong linkage between Soviet conduct throughout the world and the state of U.S.-Soviet relations. But it also urges flexibility in such linkage, stressing that future Soviet actions-most notably...
...himself as some great big philosopher-king." He believes that social and economic issues should be left to legislators, even when they handle them poorly. He once derided a Connecticut anticontraceptive statute as an "uncommonly silly law"-and at the same time voted to uphold it. To some, this restraint betokened a lack of drive or leadership. Says one law professor: He was a real disappointment. He was a responder. Adds Dennis Hutchinson, a professor at Georgetown Law Center, "He didn't have a hell of a lot of influence on his brethren...
...Delius, completed in 1910 and first performed in 1919, proved a major discovery. The perfumed, sensuous score is characteristic of this British composer who spent much of his life in France and suggests Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande in its allusiveness and emotional restraint. Yet there is also a distinctly modern sensibility at work in the opera's structure-eleven scenes (or "pictures," as Delius called them) strung together with orchestral interludes...
...Israelis frequently asked Washington to pressure France as well as Italy, another Iraqi nuclear supplier, into reconsidering their deals with Baghdad. The U S. tried but did not succeed. Says a U.S. official: "We thought there were clear grounds to exercise self-restraint. France and Italy disagreed." The two suppliers maintained that Iraq had given sufficient guarantees of its peaceful intentions...
...prospects for oil price restraint were further brightened during the week by the release of an unexpectedly optimistic Central Intelligence Agency assessment of Soviet oil production potential through the 1980s. Four years ago, the agency had predicted that growing Soviet need for oil would force that country to import as much as 3.5 million bbl. daily from non-Communist suppliers by the mid-1980s, thus placing grave new strains on the world petroleum market. But last week the agency contradicted its original assessment of Soviet production capacity and revised the estimates upward, suggesting that the Soviet Union will remain self...